Welcome to The Collective Table, where we celebrate the intersections of Jesus, justice, and joy! This podcast is brought to you by The Oceanside Sanctuary Church. Each week, we bring our listeners a recording of our weekly Sunday teaching at Oceanside Sanctuary, which ties scripture into the larger conversations happening in our community, congregation and podcast. We’re glad you’re here - thanks for listening.

This week, guest preacher Mark Weathers brings us a message entitled "Silent Nights, Dark Nights" which is based on the scripture found in Job 23:8-10.

This teaching was recorded on Sunday, May 11th, 2025 at The Oceanside Sanctuary Church (OSC) in Oceanside, CA. To learn more about our community or to support the work we do, visit us at https://oceansidesanctuary.org.

Welcome to The Collective Table, where we celebrate the intersections of Jesus, justice, and joy! This podcast is brought to you by The Oceanside Sanctuary Church. Each week, we bring our listeners a recording of our weekly Sunday teaching at Oceanside Sanctuary, which ties scripture into the larger conversations happening in our community, congregation and podcast. We’re glad you’re here - thanks for listening.

This week, Rev. Claire Watson brings us a message entitled "Time to be Human" which is based on the scripture found in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.

This teaching was recorded on Sunday, May 4th, 2025 at The Oceanside Sanctuary Church (OSC) in Oceanside, CA. To learn more about our community or to support the work we do, visit us at https://oceansidesanctuary.org.

Good Friday isn't tidy. It's messy. It's heavy. And it asks something radical of us.

In this Good Friday homily from Oceanside Sanctuary, we reflect on Jesus' true test - not in the desert, but in a garden, surrounded by people ready to fight for him. Faced with real power, Jesus made a choice that still shakes the world: the choice of love over control, vulnerability over violence.

Too often, we've been told that Jesus died because we are inherently bad. But what if Good Friday isn't about guilt - it's about revealing the heart of God? What if it's not about our personal failures, but about the way humanity keeps choosing power over compassion?

In this message, we wrestle with the meaning of the "cup" Jesus accepted, why his death matters, and what it truly means to follow him in a world obsessed with domination and fear.

Released a couple of Fridays late - but maybe right on time for all of us still trying to choose love over power.

This teaching was recorded on Friday, April 18th, 2025 at The Oceanside Sanctuary Church (OSC) in Oceanside, CA. To learn more about our community or to support the work we do, visit us at https://oceansidesanctuary.org.